SAS/C Library Reference, Vol. 1

fgetc -- Read a Character from a File

SYNOPSIS

 #include <stdio.h>

 int fgetc(FILE *f);

DESCRIPTION

fgetc reads a single character from the stream associated with the FILE object addressed by f and returns the character.

RETURN VALUE

fgetc returns the next input character, or EOF if no character can be read.

IMPLEMENTATION

fgetc is implemented by an actual function call, not a built-in function, so it is slower than getc. (However, less code is generated.)

EXAMPLE

  #include <stdio.h>

  main()
  {
     FILE *fp;
     int c,count;
     count = 0;

     fp = fopen("tso:MYFILE", "rb");          /* Open MYFILE to read. */
     while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)           /* Count characters.    */
        ++count;

     printf("Number of characters in the file "tso:MYFILE": %d", count);
     fclose(fp);
  }

RELATED FUNCTIONS

getc, getchar, ungetc